NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Gray James (1770-1830) poet DNB: Gray, James (1770?-1830), schoolmaster, Church of England clergyman, and writer LBT ID: JaGray1830 | B/BAP: 1770 DIED: 1830-09-25 |
SOURCES: DNB | |
Scottish poet, the Latin master at Dumfries, where he taught the children of Robert
Burns. He was afterwards master of the Edinburgh High School (1801-22), James Hogg's
brother-in-law, and rector of Belfast Academy (1822). In 1826 he emigrated to
Bombay. | |
REFERENCES TO James Gray: Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 1:
¶ 157 Peterkins, “Mr. Wordsworth and the Westmoreland Election” in The Examiner (5 July 1818) 427 Found 1:
¶ 1 John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, 15 April 1851 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1:
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